We are limited to the machines over there and the several that we will be taking with us. I haven't seen the ones that have been donated over here but I hear they are fairly good machines.
On 10/12/05, Barry Gaskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think Douglas said that he will be limited to using all of the old used > hardware that will be available over there. I would not be suprised if > that > turns out to be 100 MHz pentiums with 128MB or less (or even 386 or 486 > machines). They may not even have USB connectors and even if they do then > the BIOS will probably not be able to boot from it. > My best advice would be to see if they can give you some idea of what some > of the system specs would be before you leave and for you to burn some > CD's > of some Distros that will work with those systems. If they are really low > end systems then forget about some of the latest flashy distros with all > the > bells and whistles. Look at low resource distros like DSL (Damn Small > Linux). If you cannot determine what the specs are on the machines before > you leave then burn a dozen different CDs of a whole range of distro's > that > have different system requirements. Otherwise you will get there with the > distro that you prefer only to find out that the old machines they have > will > not even boot up the install CD. > Find out as much as you can from the people over there about what you have > to work with and burn as many CDs as you can before you leave because once > you get there you will probably not have a high speed connection to > download > iso images and a nice CD burner and a bunch of blank CDs. > - Barry Gaskins > > On 10/11/05, Lee Fickenscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Oct 11, 2005, at 9:16 PM, Aaron Joyner wrote: > > > > > There have been lots of good suggestions in this thread, but don't > > > neglect to consider sand, dust, and dirt, and their devastating > > > effects on computer hardware. Particularly in a true desert > > > scenario, where you have people walking in and out from the sandy > > > ground (if not sand storms actually blowing sand into where the > > > computers are housed), this is going to result in a much higher > > > maintenance schedule. You'll want to train a couple, or at best > > > maybe a half dozen people, on how to properly disassemble and clean > > > a computer. If they just know to blow the sand out from the inside > > > of the case and how to lubricate and replace cooling fans, you'll > > > be a *lot* better off in the long run. > > > > How about a semi-sealed diskless system using a non-conductive liquid > > coolant? > > Something like: > > > > http://techreport.com/etc/2001q4/comdex/koolance2.jpg > > > > Have it boot from flash and use a USB flash drive for removable > > storage. :) > > -- > > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
